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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1914
Page
4
Local Greencastle items include residents in Indianapolis Terre Haute and Cadiz journaling visits and travels. Announcements note marriages engagements and weddings set in Kansas Kentucky and Greencastle with DePauw ties. Weather shifts and Christmas events frame community life with guardian appointments and post office activity.
The ad highlights Victrola phonographs and holiday specials at Hanna's with promotions on Cabbage, le per lb, and a lined oak child’s rocker priced at 1.00. The Greencastle Music and Hominy Factory is invited to be inspected at 104 North Indiana Street. The Porcelain Art Shop is promoted as in harmony with the season.
An ad notes a picture sale at Hanna's with prices from 5c to $5.00 and potato delivery 60c. The notice cites Wetz Read and Sayers' advertisement on the front page.
Postal clerks faced a heavy parcel post workload as hundreds of Christmas packages arrived. Trains brought large mail stacks and daily distribution proved difficult, with Frank Ashworth delivering parcel post loads by wagon to Greencastle. Onions priced at 75 cents per bushel.
Indiana railways plan to appeal the 2 cent fare law before the 1915 Legislature proposing a new 20 cent per mile rate. Nine railroads met with Governor Ralston and the Public Service Commission asking for support while commissioners reserved judgment.
Putnam County residents faced charges for harboring un Taxed dogs as Prosecuting Attorney William M. Sutherlin enforced tax laws. Citizens paid back taxes at township offices and could face charges if not timely settled.
Listings show transfers from John W. Robe to Anna Stafr wall and others like Cloverdale Hardware Co to J A Broadstreet, with parcels in Greencastle and Cloverdale. Conveyances include Green and Jefferson township plots and Forest Hill cemetery plots. Also notes on Mrs O H Bowen and daughter Vera visiting Indianapolis.
McCurry and Reed Furniture and Undertaking on West Side Square offers a full line of furniture for Christmas. Convert housework to pleasure with electric irons washing machines sewing machines vacuum cleaners. A present that lasts for years from Greencastle Electric Co.
Secretary of State Bryan will visit Indianapolis for two days in February as a guest of the Transportation Club of Indianapolis and the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association. He will address the General Assembly and attend banquets on February 3 and 4. The Indiana Democratic editors plan a large gathering with invitations to national figures.
Charles M. Wright a 14 year old from Bloomington was captured by Sheriff McDaniel and his son after hiding in a hay stack near Sycamore Indiana. He resisted for twenty minutes before being found then jumped when tickled. Police recovered two pocket knives two watches a necklace and a locket from his pockets plus the rifle and cartridges from the Ball home. Wright is jailed in Kokomo charged with larceny and Ball plans to seek placement at the Indiana Boys School.
Alford Marion Storm born June 1 1847 in Putnam County Indiana died December 18 1914 aged 67 6 17 married Elizabeth Ellis in 1865 with children Joseph Rebecca Fred. He served in the 115th Indiana Vols and later the 43rd Regiment Persimmon brigade. Funeral held December 19 at Henry Storm's Marion township with Rev J E Sherrill.
Alpha Phi sorority treated twenty Fox Ridge youngsters to a Monday afternoon Christmas party at the chapter house on East Seminary Street. Santa Claus distributed gifts in stockings as children enjoyed games and a festive surprise.
Children from a Fox Ridge Sunday school class were entertained at a festive gathering. A suggestion for a Christmas present lights up with a flashlight from Greencastle Electric Co. Jardineer Stands a fine lot from McCurry Reed's Furniture on West Side.
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